Improvement in needles for weaving chair-seats



new. c. MosHEH.,

Needles for Weaving Chair-Seats. *N0.|52',4o1.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DEWTITT C. MOSHIJR, OF \VASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN NEEDLES FOR WEAVING CHAIR-SEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,401, dated June :23, 1874; application filed April 4, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEwITT C. MOSHER, of Vashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented an Improvement in Needles for Veaving GhairSeats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, reference being' had to the annexed drawings making part of this specification, in which- Figure lis an elevation showing the form of the implement; and Fig. 2 is a similar elevation, showing the manner of attaching the pass entirely across the seat. It has an eye at C, large enough to receive the end of the splint to be inserted into the web, and the point D is sharpened and flattened, and then twisted a quarter-turn and bent to one side, as shown in the drawings. The splintE is secured by passing the end through the eye, and then carrying it toward the point far enough to be caught by the splint and confined by the latter, which is wound around the point, so as to extend -in the line of the shank of the needle. The form of the needle facilitates its introduction through the web, being turned as necessary, to carry it alternately over and under the strands already in place. Then it has thus been inserted, in the manner in which the splint is to be inserted, the latter is passed forward through the eye, and the end extended toward the point along the flattened face of the needle far enough to be caught by the part of the strand not passed through the eye, whichy is turned forward over the end and then passed under the needle near the point, thus securing the end so that it will not catch as the needle is withdrawn from the web, drawing after it the splint, which, when the needle is withdrawn, occupies its place in the web.

What I clailn as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A needle or shuttle for weaving splints in the manufacture of chairs, having a shank attached to a handle and an eye, C, near the point D, the lat-ter being twisted and bent substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

I). C. MOSHER.

lVitnesses:

Jos. T. K. PLANT, B. EDW. J. EILs. 

